Islam's Reformers .pdf

next world, or is it because reformers slight the next world? Aswe all know, Muslims have become lazy also in performing theirreligious duties today. And this should not be out of their lovefor the religion, should it? If Muslims depended on the religionfirmly, they would not be slack in their religious duties. Whencehas this laziness come over Muslims? When it is observedminutely, it will be understood that sweetness of our life andcomfort, that is, following our nafs, is the cause. Ignorance hasbeen added to it. Our ignorance has prevented us from realizingthe necessity of endeavour and self-sacrifice for ensuringsweeter life and continuous comfort in Paradise. Then, it is avery unjust, groudless slander to indicate the exalted andvaluable realities of Islam as the cause of this laziness. And it isa very loathsome slander to impute evils, especially fawning,hypocrisy, flattery and lie, to Islam. These evils are caused byself-seeking, that is, by abandoning Islam and clinging to theworld and by giving up the rules of morals. In short, the maincauses of immorality are irreligiousness and ignorance. Aperson who puts his trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ, i.e., who hastawakkul, and who believes in qadar does not condescend tofawning and lie, nor does he believe that advantages outsideqadar can be obtained through these ways. A person whobelieves that profit and loss are from Allâhu ta’âlâ simply doesnot humiliate himself before creatures. He will not flatteranybody. However, those who deny qadâ’ and qadar and relyonly on intermediaries, especially on illegal, evil intermediaries,will do so. Also it is out of place to ask, “What degeneratesMuslims is not tawakkul and belief in qadar, but isn’t itmisunderstanding them?” Evils and immoralities cannot resultfrom any manner of understanding tawakkul and belief in qadar,for this belief and evils are antonymous to each other. There isno relation between them. Even misunderstanding theteachings of tawakkul and qadar does not lead to evils. Shameon those mouths and pens who, instead of looking for theseevils and immoralities in the denial of tawakkul and qadar,search for a relation between evils and Muslims’ belief! Do theydiagnose the diseases of Muslims contrarywise like this? Weshould not complain about tawakkul and belief in qadar of theflatterers and liars who wish to attain their evil desires; instead,we should recommend that they have tawakkul and belief inqadar. See what our Master Fakhr al-’âlam (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi- 36 -